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Spiritual thoughts, do not remove biological conditions.
Those who have reached the levels of ego many of the Eckhart Tolle readers wish to achieve have structurally different brains than you and I when examined. We are just beginning to understand what we can actually do to make our brain conducive to different states. Ultimately we are limited by the technology available to peer inside the brain.
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"The area where we see these differences [from meditation] is involved in both the modulation of functions like heart rate and breathing and also the integration of emotion with thought and reward-based decision making – a central switchboard of the brain," says Lazar. An instructor in Psychology at Harvard Medical School
Don't underestimate our potential/neuroplasticity! Do a search on any academic search engine and read the neuroscience literature on meditation. Fascinating stuff!
Thought provoking post

When we learn new behaviours and we change our personalities our brains will mold. But it's elasticity, it will only ever go so far.
The problem with the human species and it's want. Is that it's brain has been created and formed during times where we need more. And aqquiring more was in your interest (it arguably still is). So our impulse is more, and that's hardwired in there. It's why we have more obese that anorexics.
And what would happen regardless if we destroyed our ego?
No sense of self.... no confidence.
No desire.... no motivation.
For someone chasing some sort of enlightenment, that's great! But for anyone of us, who isn't as concerned with escaping to nirvana.
Kasabi used to lambast alot of people for talking about rather buddhist principles, becuase he is very right when he says that someone who was honestly seeking zen would have nothing to do with PU.
The number one way to motivate someone to sarge has nothing to with ego. It's actually making them way up the positives and negatives.
People are truly motivated when working in their own interest.